Madam Secretary: Season Six; Wentworth Miller and Michael Patrick Thornton Join Final Season

by Jessica Pena, September 6, 2019

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Madam Secretary has some new company. TVLine reports Wentworth Miller and Michael Patrick Thornton have joined the CBS TV show’s sixth and final season.

The political drama follows U.S. Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) as she battles office politics while driving diplomacy and negotiating global deals. The cast also includes Tim Daly, Sara Ramirez, Željko Ivanek, Keith Carradine, Sebastian Arcelus, Patina Miller, and Geoffrey Arend.

On Madam Secretary, Miller will be playing Senator Mark Hanson, “a ruthless politician who hates the fact that Elizabeth McCord has been elected president” and Thornton will portray “Captain Evan Moore, chief of staff to First Gentleman Henry McCord.”

The sixth and final season of Madam Secretary premieres on CBS on October 6th at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

I understand Madam Secretary in no longer an appropriate name for this show as Elizabeth will now be Madam President. I look forward to the last season, but it also brings disappointment. This is a fantastic political drama, with a dynamic cast. It is an exciting, daring, sit on the edge of your seat program, yet wholesome, humorous, caring, and moralistic. We do not see enough quality programming like Madam Secretary, I am deeply saddened to see it come to an end. I would love to see it end with an announcement of a pilot program…. Madam President.